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55 minutes ago · Oct. 16, 2024, 9:20 a.m. ET. Paul Lowe, an award-winning British photojournalist who captured the horror of war during the fall of the former Yugoslavia in a career that spanned decades and ...
- Virgil Abloh: Designer
- Timuel Black: Author, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
- Jerome Butler: Architect
- Rennie Davis: Political Activist
- Tony Esposito: Blackhawks Hockey Legend
- Timm Etters: Muralist
- Lester Fisher: Lincoln Park Zoo Director
- Fritzie Fritzshall: Holocaust Survivor and Activist
- Bernie Hansen: Longtime Chicago Alderman
- Jerry Harkness: Loyola Ramblers Basketball Star
Acclaimed fashion designer Virgil Ablohdied on Nov. 28 at the age of 41, following a battle with cancer. Abloh was the first Black man named an artistic director at Louis Vuitton. The son of immigrant parents from Ghana, Abloh was born and raised in Rockford. He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with a master's degree i...
Timuel Black, a prominent civil rights activist, author, and historian, died on Oct. 13. He was 102 years old. Few people knew more about Chicago's Black history than Dr. Black. Dr. Black moved to Bronzeville in 1919 and was one of the first graduates of DuSable High School.He served in the military during World War II, participating in the Normand...
Former Chicago city architect, Public Works Commissioner, and Aviation Commissioner Jerome R. Butlerdied Dec. 2 at the age of 93. Butler joined Chicago city government in 1960, and was appointed as city architect by Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1967. As city architect, Butler helped lead the restoration of the auditorium at the east end of Navy Pier i...
Rennie Davis was born in Michigan, raised in Virginia, and lived most of his adult life in Colorado, but he is perhaps best known for his antiwar activist work in Chicago – and in particular as one of the "Chicago Seven" defendants who was tried for organizing an anti-Vietnam War protestoutside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Thousands cla...
Chicago Blackhawks icon Tony Espositodied Aug. 10 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 78. A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Esposito was a goaltender for the Blackhawks from 1969 until 1984. "Tony was one of the most important and popular figures in the history of the franchise as we near its 100th anniversary," Blackhawks Ch...
Timmothy Etters, a longtime muralist whose work adorns many Chicago areas schools, died of COVID-19 on Sept. 4 at the age of 52. The Elgin native painted more than 300 murals. A cancer survivor, Etters was also color blind. According to his website biography, he knew he wanted to be an artist as a young boy. Graffiti in particular became an outlet ...
Dr. Lester Fisher, who spent 30 years as director of the Lincoln Park Zoo and became locally famous in that role, died Dec. 22. He was 100. Fisher joined the Lincoln Park Zoo in 1947 as the zoo's first veterinarian. He became director of the zoo in 1962, and remained in that role until 1992. As director, the zoo said, "Dr. Fisher transformed Lincol...
Fritzie Fritzshallsurvived Auschwitz, and made it her life's mission to tell her story so the world would never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. Fritzshall, president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, died June 19. She was 91 years old. When Fritzshall was a young teenage girl, the Nazis occupied her hometown of Klucharky, ...
Former Chicago Ald. Bernard Hansendied July 18 at the age of 76. Hansen served as alderman of the 44th Ward – which covers a large part of the Lakeview community area – from 1983 until 2002. He was elected upon the retirement of incumbent John Merlo in the same election that brought Harold Washington to the Mayor's office. Hansen initially allied w...
Jerry Harkness, the famed Loyola Ramblers captain and two-time All-American who lead the team to its 1963 championship, died Aug. 24 at the age of 81. According to Loyola, Harkness currently ranks sixth in program history with 1,749 points and in the Ramblers' national championship season in 1962-63, provided 21.4 points per game and shot 50.4 perc...
Sep 11, 2021 · The Chicago media industry is mourning the death of Allison Payne, a TV reporter and anchor who worked for more than two decades in the Windy City and who died in Detroit, Mich., on Sept. 1 at age 57, according to WGN-TV, her old workplace.
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Sep 11, 2021 · Allison Payne, the longtime TV news reporter anchor for Chicago’s WGN, died on September 1 at age 57, WGN reported. The Detroit native joined WGN in 1990 at the age of 25 and established...
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Oct 23, 2023 · Harry Porterfield, beloved Chicago TV news anchor, ‘Someone You Should Know’ raconteur, dies at 95. Mr. Porterfield, with more than 50 years of experience, was the dean of Chicago new anchors when he signed off in 2015 at age 87. By Mitch Dudek. Oct 23, 2023, 12:08pm PDT.
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Oct 23, 2023 · Longtime Chicago newsman Harry Porterfield has died at the age of 95, according to his family. The big picture: Porterfield worked in Chicago news for more than 50 years, both at WBBM-TV and WLS-TV.
Sep 11, 2021 · CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago television icon Allison Payne has died. The longtime news anchor spent 21 years at WGN-TV Channel 9 before retiring 10 years ago. The station said Payne returned...
